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Earrings: Cartier. Shirt: Maison Margiela. Photography: Pierre-Emmanuel Testard
Style Edit

Style shoot: Chapter 3 of Cartier’s En Équilibre high jewellery collection

The final instalment of En Équilibre, unveiled in Paris in January, is once more all about balance, with harmonising colours and complementary shapes.

Art

Top Hong Kong bartender swaps cocktails for cameras for first photo exhibition

Art Basel

Art Week on a budget: 8 must-see free events in Hong Kong

Art

Showtime: 4 unmissable art exhibitions to keep you cultured this week

Mary Weatherford gets her first solo exhibition in Asia, and Greg Girard showcases 40 years of photography in Hong Kong and Tokyo.

Chow Yun Fat and Cherie Chung, photographed in 1987 by Greg Girard. Photo: courtesy Greg Girard and WKM Gallery
Art

From pirate dreams to public text, a restless creative voice arrives in the city

Capitán explores connection, belonging and why imagination may be the most valuable currency of all.

Chinese culture

How AI is helping bring Hong Kong history to life on Instagram and beyond

Cultural preservationists use generative AI to breathe life into photos from the past, but does this practice promote or distort history?

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From our archives

In pictures: Hong Kong’s Lunar New Year obsession with good fortune

To celebrate the Year of the Horse, we take a look back at how Hong Kong invited good luck through traditional customs from the 1970s to the 2000s.

A girl spins a “wheel of fortune” outside the Che Kung Temple, in Sha Tin, on the third day of the Lunar New Year in 1986. Photo: SCMP Archives
Fashion

Milan’s most stylish: a photographer’s view of the city’s best dressed

Shots of Miuccia Prada, Luciano Barbera and the late Giorgio Armani and Franca Sozzani vie with those of ordinary people in The Sartorialist’s coffee-table book for Taschen.

2026 Olympic Winter Games

Milan as it hosts the Winter Olympics: where to eat, shop and be pampered

Savour authentic cuisine at Rovello 18, get the full Italian barbershop treatment at Eredi Zucca, and admire Robert Mapplethorpe’s sensual photographs.

From our archives

In pictures: Hong Kong’s coldest days from the 1970s to 2010s

It doesn’t happen often, but Hong Kong occasionally experiences frost and ice during cold snaps, as these images from our archives capture.

Visitors bundled up against the cold to see the frost on Tai Mo Shan, where the temperature fell to minus three degrees Celsius in December 1975. Photo: SCMP Archives
From our archives

In Pictures: majestic sailing ships that made Hong Kong a port of call

Hong Kong waters have long attracted some of the world’s most impressive sailing boats, harking back to the days when wind power ruled the waves.

Ship ahoy ... the Sail Training Association of Japan’s full-masted brigantine, the Kaisei, visits Hong Kong to drum up support for an Asian society of novice sailors, in 1994. Photo: SCMP Archives
From our archives

Hong Kong swimmers braving the cold on New Year’s Day, from the 1970s to 2000s

A perennial test of courage, the city’s New Year Winter Swimming Lifesaving Championships race celebrates its 50th year in 2026.

From our archives

In pictures: Hong Kong’s parties of Christmas (and New Year’s) past

The festive season is a good excuse to let your hair down – and Hongkongers do love to party.

Smartphones

Xiaomi’s 17 Ultra, backed by Leica, challenges Apple’s iPhone Pro Max in imaging

The 17 Ultra’s US$998 starting price is nearly 8 per cent higher than the previous generation owing to the soaring cost of memory chips.

Xiaomi’s new 17 Ultra premium smartphone. Photo: Weibo
From our archives

In pictures: Hong Kong’s Christmas festivities, from the 1970s to 90s

In the late 20th century, Hong Kong transformed into a hub of festive cheer with bright lights, seasonal decor and plenty of Christmas treats.

Christmas decorations in Landmark in Central, Hong Kong, in 1988. Photo: SCMP Archives
Obituaries

Renowned British photographer Martin Parr dies at 73

The celebrated photographer documented everything from beach life to global consumerism across a decades-spanning career.

Hong Kong

What does a city do after the unthinkable? It shows up

Near Wang Fuk Court, volunteers from across the city gathered to offer help, lay flowers and turn Tai Po into a place of shared care.

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Art

He asked taxi drivers in Iraq to choose their destination. These are his photos

The result of trips to unknown destinations, Thomas Chan’s photos in his Hong Kong exhibition are a study in trust, war and identity.

Innocence, by Thomas Chan, features a boy with a bright smile who “led me to the animal enclosure in his family’s courtyard and invited me to share a cup of tea”. It is one of the photos that forms his exhibition at Wontonmeen in Sham Shui Po, Hong Kong. Photo: Thomas Chan
From our archives

In pictures: sports icons in Hong Kong, from Pelé to Serena Williams

From Kobe Bryant to Diego Maradona, these global sports stars found inspiration, fans and unforgettable moments in Hong Kong.

Art

Ryuichi Sakamoto photos see daylight 3 decades on at Hong Kong show

In MA: Ryuichi by Rensis, Rensis Ho shows a collection of previously unpublished photos of the ‘spiritual’ Japanese musician he took in 1998.

From our archives

In pictures: how Hong Kong made Halloween its own

From street parties to theme park parades, Hong Kong has transformed Halloween into a night of playful spectacle.

People dressed in playful costumes celebrate Halloween in Lan Kwai Fong in Hong Kong in 1995. Photo: SCMP Archives
On Our Radar

Good enough to eat? What happens when a chef and photographic artist join forces

Chef David Lai and artist David Leung dish up a unique cross-disciplinary experience at the Tsim Sha Tsui art residency.

An artwork by David Leung features a pareidolic image of a fish on a folding stool. Photo: courtesy Side Space
From our archives

In pictures: When 40,000 people queued for stamps in Hong Kong

From Queen Elizabeth’s 60th birthday to the 1997 handover, limited-edition stamps captured the city’s history in miniature.

Art

Hong Kong’s classic cha chaan teng culture captured in nostalgic exhibition

The exhibition at the K11 Art Mall captures the scenes, objects and sentiments of Hong Kong’s traditional local diners.

Art

The artist who wore nothing but light bulbs to scandalise communist Poland

Ewa Partum kissed strangers, aged herself on stage, and scattered propaganda letters across Poland. Now, her first Asia show is in Sheung Wan.

Feminist artist Ewa Partum’s first exhibition in Asia is on at Double Q Gallery, in Sheung Wan, Hong Kong, bringing together works across photography, film, mixed media, and on paper. Photo: Jocelyn Tam
From our archives

In pictures: Sheung Wan’s Tai Tat Tei, or ‘Poor Man’s Nightclub’

Before Sheung Wan’s Tai Tat Tei was cleared for reclamation, it was where fortune-tellers, opera singers and hawkers gathered nightly.

Hungry tourists at one of Tai Tat Tei’s lively open-air restaurants in Sheung Wan, Hong Kong, in 1986. Photo: SCMP Archives
Art

3 must-visit European exhibitions presenting photography and fashion

Enjoy the work of photographers Cecil Beaton and Erwin Olaf, as well as a retrospective marking a century of art deco in Paris.

From our archives

In pictures: Mid-Autumn Festival celebrations from the 1970s to 90s

Mooncakes, lanterns and fire dragon dances have long been hallmarks of this festival marking the full moon at the end of harvest season.

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